DETROIT >> Never one to mince words, Cher started the Detroit stop of her Dressed To Kill Tour with a warning.

“I heard you guys are a rowdy-ass bunch, I hope you took your heart medicine,” the singer and Academy Award-winning actress said from behind a red velvet curtain, which opened to reveal Cher in an enormous multi-colored feathered headdress fit for, well … Cher.

Opening the show singing “Woman’s World,” the lead single off her “Closer To The Truth” album in her trademark contralto, it was a welcome return for the pop icon who supposedly said goodbye with her three-year Living Proof: The Farewell tour a decade ago.

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But Dressed to Kill lived up to its title, with Cher sporting ensembles that competed with what Miley Cyrus was wearing up I-75 at The Palace on the same night. If anyone worried the costumes would suffer without Bob Mackie, who’s been designing for Cher since 1972, Cher sparkled, shimmered and shined in a parade of scantily clad numbers throughout the show, from a red sequined mini-dress accompanied with a feather crop jacket while singing “The Beat Goes On” to a jeweled getup revealing pink pasties covering her nipples.

Even the singer herself boasted, “I can still get in my ‘Turn Back’ costume,” and later, she did just that, complete with the leather thong.

A jumbo sun illuminated behind Cher during most of the show. When the singer left the stage for one of her many wardrobe changes, the sun came to life giving the audience peeks into her 40-year plus career and some of her most iconic looks. As if that weren’t enough to hold your attention, the show featured Cirque De Soleil-esque dancers hanging from the ceiling, performing acrobatic tricks.

Cher covered many of her old hits during the hour-and-50-minute, 19-song set, including “Gypsies Tramps and Thieves,” “Heart of Stone” and “Half Breed.” Later in the evening, she offered a heart-wrenching tribute to her late ex-husband and musical partner Sonny Bono.

“I’ve wanted to do this for a long time and I know that he would like this. It’s right up his alley,” she said as a jumbo screen dropped and displayed footage of Sonny and Cher singing “I Got You Babe,” with Cher singing her parts live on the Joe Louis stage.

Cher also performed more recent favorites such as “Believe” and “Take it Like a Man.” The stage was rearranged at times into a sultry nightclub scene and mega-bright letters spelling out the word “Burlesque.” With a hip-baring black sequin leotard accompanied by a velvet waist-length jacket, Cher belted out the title song from her 2010 box-office flop.

The lone disappointment of the night was that her version of Betty Everett’s “The Shoop Shoop Song” (from the 1990 movie “Mermaids”) didn’t make the Detroit set list. However, the elaborate surprise at the end of the show — Cher gliding across the arena on a sparkling platform — more than made up for that omission and certainly left fans hoping this one’s not the real last tour.